The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane issued some guidance last week on the anonymisation of published judgments in family court cases. You can read that guidance here. The Daily Mail reported this as follows : Curtain of secrecy should be...

The alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy now living in England, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury earlier this month has been prominently reported in the news. Investigations into the nature of the military-grade nerve agent allegedly used on...

Here at The Transparency Project, we often politely challenge inaccurate reporting by the press (sometimes we are more polite than others). Everyone gets it wrong sometimes (including us), and some of the errors we’ve flagged have been a matter of simple human...

Our FOI request The Transparency Project has been concerned for some time about judgments from family cases being published where the anonymisation was incomplete or non-existent. Since formation we have regularly noticed or been notified of such anonymisation errors,...

This is a guest post by “Judi”. Judi is a parent who has been through the Family Court who has acted as a Litigant in Person and McKenzie Friend. Once upon a time, in this land places called courts used to have public counters that opened reasonable hours,...